If I were to guess, I think Hillary is trying to influence current events. If Musharraf knows that his support from the US ends with Bush, perhaps he will do the right thing and step down now when it's politically expedient and the pressure is supremely intense to do so. Biden has called for Musharraf to step down, perhaps Hillary is trying to make it happen.
Newsday.com
Hillary Rodham Clinton waded into Pakistan's volatile internal political situation Saturday, raising the possibility the country's military might have assassinated Benazir Bhutto because the killing took place in the garrison city of Rawalpindi.
Clinton's remarks came as Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's government seemed to reject a call for an independent international investigation of the murder that Clinton and John Edwards proposed on Friday.
During a question-and-answer session at an elementary school here, Clinton offered a detailed prescription for the troubled country, suggesting that the U.S divert aid away from its military to social welfare programs.
And for the second time in as many days, she cast doubt on Musharraf's contention that the suicide bombing that led to the death of the country's most popular opposition leader was masterminded by al-Qaida.
"There are those saying that al-Qaida did it. Others are saying it looked like it was an inside job -- remember Rawalpindi is a garrison city," she said.
Meanwhile the evidence of a cover-up seems omnipresent, so much so one has to wonder if it reflects a power struggle within the military government of Pakistan, one part killing off Bhutto and trying to cover it up, another trying to pin the blame on Musharraf by leaking contradictory evidence about her death.
Why would the military say she wasn't shot, unless they are trying deliberately to make it appear Musharraf is responsible?
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